Abstract
AbstractNuclear Magnetic Resonance is a powerful platform that reveals the metabolomics profiles within biofluids or tissues and contributes to personalized treatments in medical practice. However, data volume and complexity hinder the exploration of NMR spectra. Besides, the lack of fast and accurate computational tools that can handle the automatic identification and quantification of essential metabolites from NMR spectra also slows the wide application of these techniques in clinical. We present NMRQNet, a deep-learning-based pipeline for automatic identification and quantification of dominant metabolite candidates within human plasma samples. The estimated relative concentrations could be further applied in statistical analysis to extract the potential biomarkers. We evaluate our method on multiple plasma samples, including species from mice to humans, curated using three anticoagulants, covering healthy and patient conditions in neurological disorder disease, greatly expanding the metabolomics analytical space in plasma. NMRQNet accurately reconstructed the original spectra and obtained significantly better quantification results than the earlier computational methods. Besides, NMRQNet also proposed relevant metabolites biomarkers that could potentially explain the risk factors associated with the condition. NMRQNet, with improved prediction performance, highlights the limitations in the existing approaches and has shown strong application potential for future metabolomics disease studies using plasma samples.
Publisher
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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